Rampo Noir - Movie

About Rampo Noir - Movie

Four auteur directors provide a shocking, grotesque compilation of short films each stylistically different and based on the great Japanese mystery writer, Edogawa Rampo. Edogawa Rampo is the Japanese Edgar Allen Poe -Features one of Japan’s biggest stars, Tadanobu Asano (Ichi The Killer, Zatoichi)

Contains some brief partial nudity and violence. Not for children.

List of Rampo Noir - Movie Episodes

Episode	Title	Release	Prerelease
Rampo Noir - Movie
1	Mars Canal	04/28/2008	04/28/2009
2	Mirror Hell	04/28/2008	04/28/2009
3	Caterpillar	04/28/2008	04/28/2009
4	Crawling Bugs	04/28/2008	04/28/2009

Detailed Information

• Genres: jmovie, horror, drama, psychological thriller, jdrama
• Episodes: 4
• Publisher: Kadokawa Pictures USA
• Year: 2005

AKA
Rampo Jigoku
乱歩地獄

Summary

Mars Canal - Within absolute silence, a naked man wanders through a dark and depressing landscape recalling the excruciating details of his last encounter with his former lover.

Mirror Hell - When a series of women are discovered with their faces burnt and skulls charred, a young detective investigates, discovering that a unique hand mirror is always found at the scene.

Caterpillar - A war hero returns home with no limbs and only his eyesight remaining. His beautiful wife, tired of taking care of him, turns to torturing her crippled husband for amusement.

Crawling Bugs - A sexy actress is returning home from a successful night on stage, until her limo driver decides that she should be coming home with him.

Cast
Tadanobu Asano - Private detective Kogorô Akechi (2x); A man; Masaki (story "Imomushi", "Kagami jigoku", "Kasei no unga", and "Mushi")
Yuuko Daike - (segment "Kagami jigoku")
Chisako Hara - (segment "Kagami jigoku")
Masami Horiuchi - (segment "Kagami jigoku")
Mikako Ichikawa - (segment "Kagami jigoku")
Hanae Kan - (story "Imomushi")
Ryhuhei Matsuda - Tarô Hirai (story "Imomushi")
Kaiji Moriyama - (story "Kasei no unga")
Tomoya Nakamura - (story "Kasei no unga")
Hiroki Narimiya - Tooru (story "Kagami jigoku")
Tamaki Ogawa - Fuyu Kinoshita (segment "Mushi")
Yukiko Okamoto - Tokiko Sunaga (story "Imomushi")
Noa Omori - First Lieutenant Sunaga (story "Imomushi")
Hiromasa Taguchi - (segment "Mushi")
Minori Terada - (segment "Kagami jigoku")
Susumu Terajima - (segment "Kagami jigoku")
Yumi Yoshiyuki - (segment "Kagami jigoku")

Directed by:
Akio Jissoji - “Kagami Jigoki”
Atsushi Kaneko - “Mushi”
Hisayasu Sato - “Imomushi”
Suguru Takeuchi - “Kasei no Unga”

(c) 2005 “Rampo Jigoku” Film Partners